Golden Ghosts News Today

The first official Juneteenth celebration in the history of Tuolumne County drew a crowd of about 50 people to the downtown Columbia gazebo Saturday as attendees sang, danced and listened

Long romanticized as an era of unbridled freedom, migration and entrepreneurial spirit, California’s Gold Rush was also a time of enslavement and hateful racial violence. In a new book titled Voices of the Golden Ghosts, a collective of North State authors reveals the fascinating 19th century Black Californians who fought against systemic discrimination in sophisticated ways to free themselves from bondage and establish a sense of belonging in their new home.

News and events in Shasta County and throughout Northern California in June 2022.

Mark Oliver has been researching and publicizing his findings on how Black men did some of the hard work of digging fduring the gold rush; now he's out with a book, "Voices of the Golden Ghosts – African Americans in the California Gold Rush."